The suicide squad

The Suicide Squad, additionally called Task Force X (the name of a closely connected however freelance super ordinate organization), could be a name for 2 fictional organizations within the DC Comics Universe. The primary version debuted within the Brave and also the daring (vol. 1) #25 (1959), and also the second in Legends #3 (1987). Associate degree "original" Suicide Squad was later created on the Q.T. Origins (vol. 2) #14, connecting the opposite Squads.

The modern Suicide Squad (created by John Ostrander associate degreed Ryan Scott within the said Legends #3) is an agonist team of incarcerated super villains World Health Organization act as disavow able assets for the US government, enterprise insecure black Ops missions in exchange for commuted jail sentences. The cluster operates out of filled Reeve Penitentiary, below the position of Dr. Amanda Fats Waller. The Suicide Squad's existence helps to clarify why several condemned villains within the D.C. Universe rove free while not having heroes pursuit them down—until they, inevitably, try or commit another crime.

This entry covers the assorted incarnations of the Suicide Squad (and the 5 associated monthly Suicide Squad comic book series) that exist throughout DC Universe canon, from its origins within the period of time, to its modern post-Crisis reimagining, to the present version that was introduced within the wake of DC's new fifty two continuity bring up.